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According to the Verge , money will be transferred to an " Apple Pay Cash Card", noting that Apple has not verified whether money can then be transferred to a user's own bank account. After hitting send, users must authenticate the payment by pressing their finger on their devices' home button. Apple , which is slowly realizing that nobody is ever going to use Apple Pay (or any other mobile service) to replace their wallet , has shifted direction slightly.

With a new, larger interface to make everything much easier to use, Control Center in iOS 11 is getting a major facelift. These peer-to-peer apps are especially popular with young people , who use them for everything from swapping rent among roommates to repaying friends for group outings like a restaurant bill.

Analysts said Apple is playing to its strength in the music industry by focusing on sound quality and its catalog of songs. Jan Dawson, chief analyst with Jackdaw Research, says the price is good for a high-end audio device. Augmented reality is the blending of the physical and virtual worlds. Virtual reality has been described as the next big thing for decades. Apple's been fairly quiet lately when it comes to the news cycle, unless you count CEO Tim Cook's recent admonishment ...

Backed by improvements in machine learning and artificial intelligence, Siri will now be able to use new male and female voices that adjust pitch and tempo while speaking to provide the user a more natural experience. The new " Do Not Disturb While Driving " feature will go into effect six months after Bethany and James Modisette sued Apple for failing to provide the iPhone safety feature that it patented in 2014.

This year's conference follows the end of the iPhone's 13 consecutive years of growing sales. As is the case with Google and Amazon , Apple's HomePod represents the company's first step into a wider smart home ecosystem, the details of which remain to be seen.

HomePod is the new wireless speaker from Apple. Apple unveiled its home speaker during WWDC 2017 on Monday. HomePod will take on Amazon Echo and Google Home , which have momentum in the arena of voice-controlled speakers capable of controlling smart appliances, fetching content from the Internet and more.

Apple packed a bunch of cool new features into the new iOS 11 update coming later this year, but it's possible none of those are cooler than a simple screen capturing tool that makes it easier than ever to record videos of your iPhone in use.

When Apple Pencil launched alongside the first-generation 12.9-inch iPad Pro in 2015, it represented an important admission by the company. Read on to find the best fit for you. Similarly, old photo messages will now be stored in the cloud, thus freeing up more native storage in your device. As for support for third-party developers, Amazon features Alexa Skills while Apple now does not offer a comparable service for the HomePod .

The HomePod is equipped with the virtual assistant Siri and can answer basic questions ("Who is playing drums on this song?" or "What's the weather forecast?") and control other smart home devices. Use HomePod with Siri from across the room to listen to Apple Music, control HomeKit accessories and more. The company displayed that it was continuing to bet on the tablets by unveiling an iPad upgrade.

Apple last updated the 9.7-inch iPad Pro in March 2016 and hasn't refreshed the larger 12.9-inch model since its November 2015 debut. Instead, it needs to be plugged into a power socket. The speaker has the "power to rock the house", according to Schiller, and the aim is to make HomePod a potent assistant for news, messages, weather, traffic, home controls and more.

The upgrade will become public in the coming fall. App has rolled out a new "Files" app which will bring all the files together at one place. Users can browse, search, and organize their files while they can also view their recent files.

Amazon's Echo , released in 2015, now dominates markets like the USA where home speakers are growing in popularity. That leaves Apple . Although it was the first smartphone maker to come out with a digital assistant when Siri debuted in 2011, it hasn't had a stand-alone assistant.

These giants are battling over still-emerging fields that are expected to turn into technological gold mines, much the way personal computers and smartphones became moneymaking machines in previous decades. The short and fat sound tube features spacial awareness which is used to tune the speaker to give a better aural experience in the room the Homepod is in.

Created to work with an Apple Music subscription and featuring built-in Siri technology, the nearly 7-inch HomePod will come in white and Space Gray. Apple packed a bunch of cool new features into the new iOS 11 update coming later this year, but it's possible none of those are cooler than a simple screen capturing tool that makes it easier than ever to record videos of your iPhone in use.

India captain Virat Kohli has said that his "opinion does not matter" when it comes to playing Pakistan in bilateral series. Indian batsmen remained focused despite the rain breaks with Rohit Sharma (91 off 119), Shikhar Dhawan (68 off 65), Virat Kohli (81 not out off 68) and Yuvraj (53 off 32) rising to the occasion in a game reduced to 48 overs a side.

HomePod can respond to all Siri commands like switching off lights in the room or providing information about the weather. "Focusing on music is smart, main use case for smart speakers ", said Ben Bajarin, of the Creative Strategies consultancy.

HomePod's audio performance isn't set to be bad either. First there was Amazon's Echo , introduced to the public in 2014. The new HomePod is an impressive piece of hardware. As it stands, the HomePod is a music player that can perform basic tasks like setting alarms, she explained. Apple has elevated Siri from the phone to the home with the launch of its new HomePod smart speaker, unveiled at WWDC 2017.

With HomePod , Apple is preparing itself to take on Amazon's ( AMZN - Free Report ) Echo and Alphabet's ( GOOGL - Free Report) Google Home, which is a little speaker-like home automation device that can do everything from streaming music to dimming lights or adjusting the heat on the compatible thermostat.

Although the format is not exclusive to Apple , it's not yet clear how well the photos will work with non-Apple software and devices, which mostly use JPEG. Today, Apple is holding its Worldwide Developers Conference . A smart speaker utilizing an underachieving voice assistant could dampen interest in the product.

Augmented reality is the blending of the physical and virtual worlds. The speaker is similar to cheaper devices from Amazon and Google . Cook also announced that Amazon's video app will come to Apple's TV streaming box later this year.

The newest hardware had a definite skew towards the product being more of a fitness tracker, in contrast to the luxury fashion intentions of the original Watch. Apple is trying to make augmented reality a reality with new tools for iPhones and iPads. It's not a bad design per se, and is in keeping with Apple's minimalism, but its mesh-covered exterior is a touch bland (and uninspired) for my tastes.

While Apple obviously chose to focus on iOS 11's key additions during its WWDC 2017 keynote presentation, there are also some things eliminated by iOS 11 that many users are bound to be upset about. Apple Music now has expanded social features, Apple Maps includes indoor maps for major airports and shopping centers, and Apple News will keep you updated with personalized Siri-powered top story suggestions.

Is it done and over with? But according to reports, Apple users should not expect much from the MacBook Air product line since it might possibly be completely discontinued. Today's MacBook and iMac upgrades finally show that Apple's heading in the right direction. It is powerful enough to be a main computer for any pro for years.

The new iPad Pro . Still, it remains to be seen how consumers take to the service and whether Apple can take a bite out of the P2P payments market, which Forrester Research estimates will reach $17 billion in transaction volume by 2019.

John Ternus gives a sneak peek of the all-new iMac Pro , bringing workstation-class computing to Mac . ○ Siri on the Mac responds with a natural and more expressive voice, and when using Apple Music, it learns music preferences, creates custom playlists and answers music trivia.

After seeming to have taken a backseat in the tech innovation arena, Apple is ready to claim dominance again with their newly and most powerful Mac , a long-simmering Siri speaker ( HomePod ), a new macOS called High Sierra and now Amazon is coming to Apple TV.

Notable about Apple's first foray into VR is that it is very limited: Apple isn't building its own headset, and has instead struck a partnership with HTC to power the company's Vive hardware. The move has been praised by road safety campaigners that have been pushing for tech companies to do more to stop drivers using their smartphones while driving, something which is now the cause more than one in four serious accidents.

These new features are supposed to put the pro in iPad Pro and will not be available on iOS 11 for iPhone. This service also works through Siri so users can ask her to pay someone or transfer money. According to the company, the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence has resulted in a more natural and expressive human voice for both the male and female version.

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Apple skipped its usual March announcement event, so WWDC provided an opportunity to do some catching up. As Apple explains it, the HomePod "uses spatial awareness to sense its location in a room and automatically adjust the audio" to enhance the quality.

Apple also announced that Portrait Mode on in the new app will be able to take use HDR mode and OIS to render images with better exposure and colours. Further, the new Files app, helps to manage files, not only the devices, but also placed on iCloud, Dropbox, OneDrive and other services. Categories, faces and favorites will be synchronized across devices.

Meanwhile, Siri has a new voice, a new visual interface, the ability to perform task management, and a new translation feature that is still in beta. The " HomePod " speaker unveiled at Apple's annual developers conference is similar to rival devices that have been released during the past two years.

Caroline Perry, Brake's NZ Director says: "We're pleased to see this technology being used to help drivers stay focused on the road and not their phones". Cook has always been bullish about the prospects for augmented reality , and Apple is working on smart glasses, people familiar with the plans have said .

A mutilated woman and a winged man spewing moths are just two of the disturbing images in the trailer for Spike TV's new Stephen King adaptation series, The Mist , Rolling Stone said. The series will consist of 10 episodes and is slated to debut this summer. A small town family is torn apart by a brutal crime. But, a new trailer for The Mist , set to premiere in June, certainly makes this latest plunge into King's Bridgton, Maine, seem appropriately terrifying .

Named as the Apple HomePod , the speakers are a competition to the Sonos PLAY:3, Amazon Echo , and the Google Home speakers . With Airplay 2 we finally get multiroom audio support, a huge upgrade that will allow homes with Apple's HomePod - as well as products from partners like Bose, Bang & Olufsen, Marantz and others - to stream audio wirelessly to different rooms and to multiple speakers .

The company unveiled the " Homepod " Monday, a voice-activated, internet-connected speaker that expands usage of the company's Siri voice assistant. On the portable side, MacBooks are also being upgraded. If you're keen to get your hands on the new iPads, the good news is that you won't have to wait long, with Apple announcing availability for the iPad Pro models in Australia won't be far off.

And with Apple's HomeKit , Apple's proprietary wireless protocol for controlling third-party smart home gadgets in iOS , HomePod serves as a hub that can control connected lights and thermostats. It will also be responsible for improving performance and security features. The new iPad starts at $649 and will start shipping next week. It will probably prove to be the second most-popular way for Amazon to insinuate itself into your living room.

Airport and indoor maps are also new additions that will sure enrich the Maps utility with iOS 11 . " iOS 11 gives iPad users the powerful app functionality they need to take advantage of everything iPad is capable of, and brings hundreds of new features and incredible updates to the iOS apps iPhone and iPad users enjoy every day", Federighi added.

In this update, Apple has revealed a new mode which will help users while driving. Apple also laid some groundwork for augmented reality, the projection of digital features onto real-world surroundings, by giving app developers tools for incorporating AR into their products.

Apple claims that the new generation iPad Pro's CPU is 30 percent faster and Graphics speed is 40 percent faster than its predecessor which provides extra battery life. In Live Photos, users can go in to edit mode and capture specific frame they want as their key photo. Create a lovely long exposure effect that is usually possible only with DSLR cameras.

Unlike Google and Facebook, which spoke frequently about their efforts and made their tools freely available for developers to use, Apple was notoriously secretive. Although the physical apps haven't changed much, they're more prominent in the Messages app than ever. The introduction of the software suggests AR-related hardware improvements in the next iPhone, due later this year, and possibly other gadgets.

A source familiar with Comey's thinking recently tol. Comey did not disclose to Sessions that Mr. Trump had requested that he end the investigation into Flynn, the Times reported , and Comey didn't tell a single official at the Justice Department about his conversation with Trump, sharing the conversation only with his closest advisers.

Now, Apple has unveiled its answe to the Echo: the Homepod . During Jobs' last decade, Apple introduced the iPod, iPhone and iPad - all huge commercial successes that both reshaped daily life and swamped previous digital music players, smartphones and tablets.

The update will land on all supported iPhone and iPad devices later in the fall. The new standard iMacs - available in 21.5-inch and 27-inch models, and priced from $1,099 to $2,299 - are also worthy of attention: They feature improved displays, along with CPU, GPU, memory, storage and connectivity improvements.

As for HomePod , Apple says that while the speaker's always listening, nothing will be sent to Apple's servers until you say, "Hey, Siri". OK, so I did experience a few bugs on my first attempt, and it also soon became clear that a Pencil would offer more precision than a finger, but all the same I'm sure using it in this way will become second-nature after a few hours with the device.

Rumors circulated last week that Apple might announce a voice-response smart speaker that uses its Siri personal assistant. It's a smart wireless speaker powered by the Siri AI that seems created to compete with the likes of Amazon's Alexa and Google's Home speaker.

Like the Amazon Echo and Google Home , the HomePod will play music while also helping people to manage their lives and homes. Apple has at long last introduced a much-needed file management application for iOS that gives iPhone and iPad users significantly more control over their files.

The HomePod , which stands less than 7 inches high, sounds "much deeper and richer than a Sonos Play 3 or an Amazon Echo , closer to what you might hear in a high-end home stereo system", the New York Times' Farhad Manjoo wrote. But it's a lot cheaper than the iPhone , which starts at $649 and is now the main way people access Siri. It's just that Apple believes it can make them better.

The updated iMac features faster Kaby Lake processors up to 4.2 GHz with Turbo Boost up to 4.5 GHz and supports up to twice the memory as the previous generation. A six-core CPU and 12-core GPU reportedly delivers up to 30 percent faster CPU performance and 40 percent faster graphics performance than the A9X chip, but Apple says you'll still get all-day battery life.

Since the launch of Amazon's Echo a year ago and Google Home in March, both of which have been popular with consumers, Apple had been widely expected to enter the market. But the company relented, and Apple's larger phones have become hot commodities as more people have embraced having a bigger display to look at pictures and watch video on the devices.